Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'Attention merchants' scramble for our attention (and money)
Advertisers have tried to get our attention in myriad ways and have increasingly entered our private lives. Tim Wu writes about the history of the “attention merchants,” from snake oil salesmen at 19th century county fairs to today’s Instagram stars. His book is The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readAdvertisers have tried to get our attention in myriad ways and have increasingly entered our private lives. Tim Wu writes about the history of the “attention merchants,” from snake oil salesmen at 19th century county fairs to today’s Instagram stars. His book is The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
KCRW Staff
KCRW Staff
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Tim Wu
law professor at Columbia. During the Biden administration, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy
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- 8:43Donald Trump: 'an environmentalist’s worst nightmare'
- 17:24What can President-Elect Trump do with his executive power?
- 27:13'Attention merchants' scramble for our attention (and money)You’re reading this
- 42:04Californians consider its own Brexit